186: Chapter 186 This is Heretical Technology

Agricultural planet Ceres, on the outskirts of the capital city.

The only safe zone on this planet had now become an iron island guarded by heavy troops.

Because several other large food processing cities had been completely overrun by the Genestealer Cult in the earthquake.

Millions of mutant rebels were pouring in from all directions, surrounding the capital tightly.

On the outskirts of the city, the urgently conscripted serfs had dug crisscrossing defensive trenches.

But fortunately, Duke Louis King did not hide in a safe underground bunker like other nobles.

He personally put on his ancestral Power Armor and supervised the battle from the very front line.

This act of leading by example greatly encouraged the low-morale Defense Force.

Relying on solid barricades, the Defense Force had continuously repelled multiple suicide charges by the mutant rebels using Heavy Stubbers and Logging Guns.

Inside the front-line command post, the smell of gunpowder smoke and sweat mixed together.

Around the large tactical table sat solemn high-ranking officers, pale-faced Political Commissars, Battle Sisters holding Chainswords, and cold-blooded Adeptus Arbites Arbiters.

Duke Louis King sat in the main seat, listening to the battle damage report.

And in the midst of this group of serious natives, Nikon Da Niao was squatting on the edge of the tactical table with no regard for posture, gesticulating and spitting as he recounted the splendor of the space battle.

"Let me tell you! The fleet of our Alliance is fierce!"

Nikon Da Niao gestured as he described, "Finding that the main cannons couldn't penetrate, those Chapter Masters directly ordered full throttle, driving the ships right into the alien flesh warships! Guess what happened in the end?"

Duke Louis King frowned and shook his head.

"Hey!"

Nikon Da Niao slapped his thigh, "It directly punched a big hole in those giant bug ships! Then those animals of ours... no, wait, those heroic warriors of ours! They rushed right into the interior of the bio-ship with bayonets! They slaughtered those aliens until they were crying for their parents!"

"I'm telling you, even those five or six-meter-tall Tyranid Tyrants were hacked into slag by our people with two-handed swords!"

Nikon Da Niao's words, which were three parts truth and seven parts lies, added fuel to the fire, leaving the native high officials stunned.

"Absurd!"

A hot-tempered Defense Force Commander finally couldn't help it, he slammed the table and retorted loudly, "Human physical strength has its limits! Without the assistance of heavy mechs, how could one kill a five or six-meter-tall giant bug with just melee weapons?! You are simply talking nonsense!"

Nikon Da Niao curled his lips and looked at the officer sideways.

"What? Have you ever hacked a Tyrant?"

The officer was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously shook his head: "...No, I've only seen pictures in the archives."

"Then if you haven't hacked one, why are you arguing about it?!"

Nikon Da Niao retorted bluntly.

Afterward, he looked around and found that except for that Commander, everyone's eyes were actually filled with a desire to see for themselves.

"Fine! Since you don't believe it, today I'll let you see what a real interstellar war god is!"

Nikon Da Niao flipped his wrist-mounted pv terminal and skillfully opened the internal channel.

He quickly found the high-definition first-person recording of the solo kill of the Tyrant that Flame Fist had just uploaded.

"Keep your eyes open and watch!"

Nikon Da Niao pressed the play button.

The high-ranking native officials, who were usually high and mighty, couldn't care about their status and dignity now; one by one, they stretched their necks and stared fixedly at the image.

The video was a shaky first-person perspective.

The scene was very dim and oppressive, surrounded by constantly squirming purple-red flesh walls and incomplete Tyranid corpses all over the ground.

Suddenly! The camera jerked upwards.

In the center of the flesh hall not far away stood a giant Tyranid Commander taller than a building—a Tyrant!

The hideous bone swords and acid-dripping fangs made people feel a suffocating pressure even through the screen!

"The God-Emperor is above..."

A Battle Sister gasped, subconsciously gripping the Aquila amulet on her chest.

However!

In the holographic image, the owner of the first-person perspective faced such a terrifying giant beast, not only without the slightest fear or retreat, but instead let out a morbid and fanatical crazy laugh!

Then, the screen shook violently.

The owner of the perspective swung a super-sized two-handed greatsword burning with pale psychic flames and rushed up like a mad dog!

Swords flashed, flesh and blood flew!

After a dazzling, reckless, and completely defensive-less crazy duel.

With a loud crash of breaking bones, the head of that giant Tyrant was actually hacked off by the warrior with the greatsword! It rolled to the ground!

The video ended abruptly there.

There was deathly silence in the command post.

All the natives hadn't recovered for a long time.

On one hand, they were deeply shocked by the terrifying size of those space Tyranids!

Compared to them, the Genestealers outside the city who only knew how to hack people with mining picks were simply like docile pet dogs!

On the other hand, they were even more deeply afraid of the powerful combat capability of the warrior in the recording!

To be able to kill such a monster with pure physical melee combat, what kind of terrifying existence must that be?

"Gulp."

The officer who had just retorted swallowed hard, his voice trembling, "That... that... how many warriors like this are there on your Spark Alliance side?"

Nikon Da Niao jumped off the table, slumped into a chair, crossed his legs, and waved his hand casually: "Not many, not many. As for high-level combat power that can tear apart big monsters like this, all in all, there are still one or two thousand."

"One or two thousand?!"

The officer widened his eyes, his face full of disbelief, almost falling off his chair.

The others' expressions were no better.

They looked at each other, wildly guessing in their hearts, who exactly is this Spark Alliance that suddenly appeared?

Could they be the new generation of angels secretly cultivated by the Emperor, but they hadn't heard of any cultivation in this remote place?

At this moment, another officer in charge of intelligence stepped forward and asked cautiously: "By the way, outsider, a few days ago, before the Astropath tower completely lost communication, it received a vague urgent telegram. It said that the guard fleet of the Mobius Prime Governor was completely annihilated by a mysterious rebel fleet! Could it be..."

Nikon Da Niao patted his chest and admitted without concealment: "That's right! It was done by our Alliance! That useless fleet of the Governor couldn't fight at all. I was at the scene when the war started, and I even took many high-definition photos of the space naval battle! Want to see them?"

Just as Nikon Da Niao was about to take out his pv terminal again to continue his show-off career.

"Bang!"

The command post door was pushed open violently.

A mud-covered messenger stumbled in, interrupting this cross-channel bragging session.

"Report to the Duke! Report to the Commander!"

The messenger reported loudly, "The city defense radar shows that on the plain at ten o'clock, about two hundred kilometers from the capital, an unidentified object was suddenly found falling from high altitude! The spectral characteristics shown by the divination instrument are suspected to be a giant meteorite!"

Hearing this report, the seasoned Commander sitting in the main seat who hadn't spoken, knitted his brows into a knot.

He immediately felt something was very wrong.

"Meteorite?!"

The Commander stood up and slammed the table, "Where would a meteorite come from at this time?! It didn't fall early or late, why did it fall right when the bug army is pressing on the border? Immediately send a team of armored scouts to find out what that thing is!"

The messenger looked embarrassed and replied awkwardly: "My lord... we can't get through. The land transportation lines outside the capital have been completely sealed off by those mutant rebels. Armored vehicles will be blown up as soon as they drive out of the city gate."

"Then send planes!"

The Commander roared, "Send reconnaissance planes! Can't we even scrape together a broken plane that can fly in our entire capital?! At all costs, we must find out what that falling object is!"

"Yes!" The messenger gritted his teeth and accepted the order loudly.

Nikon Da Niao, who was sitting with his legs crossed, watched the Commander making faces at the messenger, and the messenger actually believed it, putting on a tragic look of intending to go to the front line to die heroically.

Nikon Da Niao complained wildly in his heart: "Damn! Which god-forsaken programmer wrote the NPC AI for this broken game? It's too damn realistic! In order to trick me into going out to work, they can actually act out a tragic drama here? It's outrageous!"

Nikon Da Niao sighed and waved his hand: "Forget it, forget it! Stop acting! I'll go for you! It just so happens that my shuttle has plenty of fuel, flying two hundred kilometers is a piece of cake."

Hearing this, the messenger who was just about to walk out of the command post took it seriously.

He turned around and looked at Nikon Da Niao with a moved expression.

"My lord! You are our distinguished guest, how can we let you take risks on the front line?!"

The messenger made a standard Aquila gesture on his chest, "Serving the divine Emperor is our duty!"

Nikon Da Niao rolled his eyes, walked up, and patted the messenger on the shoulder.

"Stop talking nonsense, let's go together. Take my shuttle; after all, my ship's hull is tougher, which is safer than those planes of yours."

The officers around, seeing this, wanted to step forward to feign persuasion.

Nikon Da Niao directly activated his show-off mode, pointing with his chin: "What? Do you think I couldn't even beat that Tyrant just now?"

Thinking of the terrifying giant beast with its head cut off in the video, everyone closed their mouths, not daring to speak, their eyes filled with awe.

Nikon Da Niao was as steady as an old dog on the surface, but panicked inside.

"Damn, this time the bluff was too big." He muttered to himself.

The problem is, he is a pure scenery player!

Since he entered the game, he hasn't even killed a mutant dog on the roadside, and his character level hasn't even climbed to level ten!

If he really encounters a high-level bug, he has no power to fight back other than running away!

But since things had reached this point, Nikon Da Niao was not a coward who would retreat at the last minute.

Although he was scared to death, he still pretended to be calm and took the messenger, as well as another assigned elite scout, out of the command post and boarded his private shuttle.

As soon as the shuttle cabin door opened.

Nikon Da Niao pulled a brand-new plasma rifle from the passenger seat storage cabinet and stuffed it into the messenger's arms.

"Throw away those broken laser water guns of yours! Take this!"

Nikon Da Niao warned fiercely, "And you! You two remember this! When we get there, if we encounter danger, you must protect me at all costs!"

"I am the only pilot of this ship! If I'm gone, you two will be finished in the wilderness! Understand?!"

The scout hugged the plasma rifle, instantly energized, and shouted: "Don't worry, my lord! I'm not afraid of death!"

Nikon Da Niao rolled his eyes wildly in his heart: "Nonsense! You data-synthesized NPCs are of course not afraid of death, but if I get bitten to death, I will lose experience!"

Nikon Da Niao coughed twice and said righteously: "I know you are not afraid of death! But do you think I am afraid of death?"

"A character as awesome as me, even if I die in battle, my soul will ascend to the Golden Throne to continue killing demons for the Emperor! But what's the use of you dying? You need to exercise more, preserve your useful bodies, and become people who are more useful to the Empire like me as soon as possible! Understand?!"

The two were so hyped up by the slick talk that they shouted in response: "Yes! My lord!"

Nikon Da Niao nodded satisfactorily, imitating the tone of Lin Li's usual lectures: "Very good! Very spirited! Board the ship! Let's go!"

Ready.

The shuttle spewed tail flames, lifted off the ground, and flew at full speed toward the target location.

Because this shuttle had the orbital travel capability to break through the atmosphere, Nikon Da Niao pulled the flight altitude directly above the stratosphere.

At this altitude, the poor anti-aircraft guns of the mutant rebels couldn't hit it at all, which was very safe.

Two hundred kilometers was not even a warm-up.

After a few minutes, the shuttle hovered directly above the incident site.

Nikon Da Niao opened the ventral bomb bay door and pointed down to the scout: "Hey, scout, you lie down and look down through that tube-shaped instrument."

The scout looked in the direction of Nikon Da Niao's finger.

It was a precision optical reconnaissance instrument fixed on the cabin floor with multiple sets of lenses.

The scout leaned his eyes over.

The next second, he was so scared he screamed!

Through that set of lenses, the originally blurry ground scene two hundred kilometers below was actually pulled right in front of his eyes, becoming exceptionally clear and visible!

Even the trajectory of the wild grass on the ground being blown by the wind could be seen clearly!

"This... this is heretical technology! This is evil sorcery!"